Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
James Laughlin
Born: October 30, 1914
Died: November 12, 1997 (aged 83)
Bio: James Laughlin was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.
Known for:
- The collected poems of James Laughlin (1994)
- Byways
- The Way It Wasn't
- The secret room (1975)
- A commonplace book of pentastichs